Pompeii Reading Comprehension

Pompeii Reading Comprehension

Assessment

Passage

English

3rd Grade

Hard

Created by

Staff - Al Hamra Lyn Fenby

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20 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the correct name for the people who had to dig to uncover the streets of Pompeii?

Street sweepers

Garbage Collectors

Archeologists

Historians

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Name the mountain beside Pompeii?

Vesuvius

Etna

Jebel Jais

Krakatoa

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The disaster provides a clear model of life in ....

Viking Times

The Stone Age

The Roman Empire

The Industrial Revolution

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Empty shells remain after ....

The streets were uncovered

The bodies decayed

The archeologists left

The volcano erupted.

5.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Look at paragraph 2 in Pompeiil. Reorder the statements to show the chronological order that they occur in the text.

In August of the year 79CE, there had been some earth tremors in Pompeii, but the people weren't worried.

Then, at around midday, a huge cloud of burning hot gas and rocks filled the sky.

The morning of 24 August was just like any other.

Many people ran for the coast

.Some went to fetch their belongings.

6.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Look at the sentences below. Reorder them to show the order the words occur in the sentence.

sky

midday

burning hot

rocks

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Mount Vesuvius erupted on which date?

24th August

24th March

24th April

24th September

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